Condemning the Heavens

Since they had to wait, Xue Wei began cultivating . This was a small village, and thus Lan could envelop the whole place within his search, but there were no traces of Li Zhiqing .

While Xue Wei was cultivating, Lan was not just lying around . Anyone who looked at him would think that he, too, was cultivating, but he was, in fact, slowly unraveling his seal .

In a way, it could be seen as recultivating his strength, but it was done much more rapidly than if he had to cultivate from scratch . Even so, it would take time .

Lan and Xue Wei were both aware that although their strength could not be considered little, it was far from strong enough to walk unimpeded through the Ghost Realm .

If Lan had not sealed his powers, then they could cause all the havoc they wished, but with things like this, it was clearly impossible .

The time went by swiftly, and soon, the middle-aged ghost returned to the carriage . Seeing Xue Wei and Lan both deep in a trance, he raised an eyebrow in interest .

All memories from when he was alive had been removed, and thus he did not know how living beings cultivated, so he sat down without making a sound and observed them .

He could sense the heaven and earth essence pouring into Xue Wei, but he could not see what happened to it as it entered his body .

Lan, on the other hand, did not absorb any heaven and earth essence . He seemed more like he was asleep, but from time to time, a pulse of strong coercion would erupt from his body, and while the strength of this coercion would usually be at the same level, he could feel a miniscule increase in the density with each passing pulse .

Clearly, the snake was cultivating, and the cultivation technique was much more efficient than the one that Xue Wei was using .

The middle-aged ghost continued to observe the two of them . He was not only a merchant but also an inventor, and he liked fiddling with small gadgets .

Maybe he could get some enlightenment from seeing how these two cultivated?

However, after observing them for half a night, he found no pattern . When Xue Wei cultivated, everything just vanished within his body . He was like a big black hole, absorbing all the heaven and earth essence, and leaking no information as to what happened to the essence, while Lan did not absorb anything, but constantly released a terrifying force .

Even if the middle-aged ghost was better at discerning things, he could not understand the human cultivation system at all .

He knew that there was a large quantity of heaven and earth essence in the ghost realm . They used it as fuel for certain machines, but he did not know it could be used by living beings for cultivating, and thus he was extremely curious as to whether or not he could trade something of his for a cultivation technique .

He did not know whether or not it would be possible for a ghost to cultivate in accordance with the living’s methods, but he wanted to try . He did not lose anything from attempting to strengthen himself .

However, he was not sure how to ask Xue Wei . He knew that it was somewhat rude of him to pry into their secrets, but he had a feeble hope that this guy might have a technique that he himself was not using .

Xue Wei had been intensely focused on cultivating, but his focus was slowly being lost, as he felt a pair of eager eyes staring at him . It was hard to ignore them, and he slowly went out of his meditation state and opened his eyes, only to see that the middle-aged ghost was looking at him with curious eyes .

Both of them looked at one another, both hesitating as they waited for the other to speak first .

The silence turned awkward, and Xue Wei frowned . He was not sure what the ghost wanted, but he understood that it had to be pretty important for him to not even dare to mention it .

"What can I do for you?" he finally asked, biting the bullet, and trying to start the conversation as soon as possible .

The middle-aged ghost hesitated for a moment more, before he somewhat embarrassedly said, "I saw that you were able to absorb the heaven and heart essence . I was wondering if you had a cultivation method that you do not use, that you can sell to me for spiritual liquid?"

The middle-aged ghost felt somewhat embarrassed by asking the question, but he truly wanted one of these cultivation methods to examine, and maybe even train in .

Xue Wei was stunned when he heard the question, and then he frowned . Could ghosts cultivate like humans? He did not know, but he had been told that they had forgotten all their memories .

Living beings were only entering the Ghost Realm once every era, and thus they had no way of producing the cultivation techniques . It was not impossible that they could cultivate using heaven and earth essence .

Xue Wei had numerous cultivation techniques . During his many travels, he had picked up many books and scrolls from corpses, but also in the graves and tombs, and the underground palace had mountains of them .

He contemplated as he began scrolling through his cultivation methods in his mind, and suddenly a bright light shone on his face .

He seemed to have killed an unorthodox cultivator once and stolen his goods . He had a unique cultivation technique that was extremely suitable for ghosts to cultivate in .